In this large room are on display some of the most important artworks by Ludovico (1555-1619), Annibale (1560-1609) and Agostino Carracci (1557-1602), Founders in the 1580's of the Incamminati Academy.

This was a school / workshop in which the new art ideas of the three cousins, matured by the union of the "true" lessons with the study of the great "Cinquecento" masters (mostly Correggio, Titian and Veronese), could be practise and teached to the youngster pupils.

The intention was that of reforming the painting of their age, with a return to a more Nature inspired art.

By Ludovico, great interpreter of both the high spirituality of the Counter-Reform as of the simplicity of everyday life, there are some paintings marking some of the highest achievements of his career, like the Announciation and the Preaching of St John the Baptist.

Few are the artworks by Annibale who left Bologna in 1595, summoned to Tome by the Cardinal Odoardo Farnese in order to wotk at the fresco decoration in the Camerino and in the Gallery of Palazzo Farnese.

At the end there are the only two paintings by Agostino, cultivated theorist of the Academy and well known as an engraver: the Assumption of the Virgin and the Last Communion service of St. Jerome.